Bookscans Review No.4
20/Nov/11 06:03 PM Filed in: book news
| Writers in the
news
Some critics will
write 'Maya Angelou is a ‘natural writer' - which is
right after being a natural heart surgeon. — Maya
Angelou
The plight of independent bookstores. St. Mark's gets a new lease but a New Hampshire shop struggles to stay open.
Congratulations! Esi Edugyan of Victoria has won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, Half-Blood Blues.
Nobel Prize-winning Daniel Kahneman reveals the built-in kinks in human reasoning—and he’s Exhibit A.
Lee Duran: Myths of book selling, pricing exposed. "Times have changed even more than I thought."
The English forest that inspired Tolkien. A look at the locations that informed novelists, from Faulkner to Woolf.
There is plenty of evidence that Shakespeare was somewhat less than a sensitive poet and entirely honest citizen.
Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer on the event that nearly killed him - and almost tore apart his family.
As the Queen prepares to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible Peter Mullen scorns its modern rivals.
The End of Borders and the Future of Books. An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise.
Congrats! G-G winner Patrick deWitt says grant ‘saved’ him.
The plight of independent bookstores. St. Mark's gets a new lease but a New Hampshire shop struggles to stay open.
Congratulations! Esi Edugyan of Victoria has won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, Half-Blood Blues.
Nobel Prize-winning Daniel Kahneman reveals the built-in kinks in human reasoning—and he’s Exhibit A.
Lee Duran: Myths of book selling, pricing exposed. "Times have changed even more than I thought."
The English forest that inspired Tolkien. A look at the locations that informed novelists, from Faulkner to Woolf.
There is plenty of evidence that Shakespeare was somewhat less than a sensitive poet and entirely honest citizen.
Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer on the event that nearly killed him - and almost tore apart his family.
As the Queen prepares to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible Peter Mullen scorns its modern rivals.
The End of Borders and the Future of Books. An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise.
Congrats! G-G winner Patrick deWitt says grant ‘saved’ him.
